An advanced study on the solution of nanofluid flow problems via Adomian’s method

Nanofluid flow is one of the most important areas of research at the present time due to its wide and significant applications in industry and several scientific fields. The boundary layer flow of nanofluids is usually described by a system of nonlinear differential equations with boundary conditions at infinity. These boundary conditions at infinity cause difficulties for any of the series method, such as Adomian’s method, the variational iteration method and others.The objective of the present work is to introduce a reliable method to overcome such difficulties that arise due to an infinite domain. The proposed scheme, that we will introduce, is based on Adomian’s decomposition method, where we will solve a system of nonlinear differential equations describing the boundary layer flow of a nanofluid past a stretching sheet.     

Method for Computing Scattering Matrices for General Dissipative and Selfadjoint Elliptic Problems in Domains with Cylindrical Ends

In a domain with finitely many cylindrical ends at infinity, we consider dissipative and formally selfadjoint elliptic problems for systems of differential equations of arbitrary order. As is known, one can regard cylindrical ends as waveguides and introduce families of incoming and outgoing waves. The amplitudes of such waves can grow at infinity at power or even exponential rate. The scattering matrices account finitely many waves. We suggest and justify a numerical method for finding such scattering matrices. Bibliography: 18 titles.     

A priori estimates and solvability of the third two-point boundary value problem

We study a priori estimates and solvability of a nonlinear two-point boundary value problem for systems of second-order ordinary differential equations with leading positively homogeneous nonlinearity of order > 1 vanishing on a single surface. Assuming that an a priori estimate holds, we prove the invariance of the solvability of the problem under a continuous change of the leading nonlinear homogeneous terms and under arbitrary perturbations that do not affect the behavior of the leading nonlinear homogeneous terms at infinity.     

Comparison of preconditioned Krylov subspace iteration methods for PDE-constrained optimization problems

We construct a novel multi-step iterative method for solving systems of nonlinear equations by introducing a parameter θ to generalize the multi-step Newton method while keeping its order of convergence and computational cost. By an appropriate selection of θ, the new method can both have faster convergence and have larger radius of convergence. The new iterative method only requires one Jacobian inversion per iteration, and therefore, can be efficiently implemented using Krylov subspace methods. The new method can be used to solve nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, such as complex generalized Zakharov systems of partial differential equations, by transforming them into systems of nonlinear equations by discretizing approaches in both spatial and temporal independent variables such as, for instance, the Chebyshev pseudo-spectral discretizing method. Quite extensive tests show that the new method can have significantly faster convergence and significantly larger radius of convergence than the multi-step Newton method.     

Estimates of solutions to a class of systems of nonlinear delay differential equations

Under study are the systems of nonlinear delay differential equations with periodic coefficients of the linear terms. Some sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of the zero solution are established. We obtain the estimates that characterize the decay rate of solutions at infinity and describe the attraction sets of the zero solution.     

On the general nonlinear self-adjoint spectral problem for differential-algebraic systems

We consider a general self-adjoint spectral problem, nonlinear with respect to the spectral parameter, for linear differential-algebraic systems of equations. Under some assumptions, we present a method for reducing such a problem to a general self-adjoint nonlinear spectral problem for a system of differential equations. In turn, this permits one to pass to a problem for a Hamiltonian system of ordinary differential equations. In particular, in this way, one can obtain a method for computing the number of eigenvalues of the original problem lying in a given range of the spectral parameter.     

Determination of the number of an eigenvalue of a singular nonlinear self-adjoint spectral problem for a linear Hamiltonian system of differential equations

We suggest a method for determining the number of an eigenvalue of a self-adjoint spectral problem nonlinear with respect to the spectral parameter, for some class of Hamiltonian systems of ordinary differential equations on the half-line. The standard boundary conditions are posed at zero, and the solution boundedness condition is posed at infinity. We assume that the matrix of the system is monotone with respect to the spectral parameter. The number of an eigenvalue is determined by the properties of the corresponding nontrivially solvable homogeneous boundary value problem. For the considered class of systems, it becomes possible to compute the numbers of eigenvalues lying in a given range of the spectral parameter without finding the eigenvalues themselves.     

Qualitative difference between solutions of stationary model Boltzmann equations in the linear and nonlinear cases

We consider problems for the nonlinear Boltzmann equation in the framework of two models: a new nonlinear model and the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model. The corresponding transformations reduce these problems to nonlinear systems of integral equations. In the framework of the new nonlinear model, we prove the existence of a positive bounded solution of the nonlinear system of integral equations and present examples of functions describing the nonlinearity in this model. The obtained form of the Boltzmann equation in the framework of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model allows analyzing the problem and indicates a method for solving it. We show that there is a qualitative difference between the solutions in the linear and nonlinear cases: the temperature is a bounded function in the nonlinear case, while it increases linearly at infinity in the linear approximation. We establish that in the framework of the new nonlinear model, equations describing the distributions of temperature, concentration, and mean-mass velocity are mutually consistent, which cannot be asserted in the case of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model.     

Existence of periodic solutions for first order differential equations

In this paper we study the periodic boundary value problem for first order differential equations by combining techniques of the theory of differential inequalities, namely the method of upper and lower solutions, and the alternative method for nonlinear problems at resonance. The results obtained are in terms of the behavior of the nonlinear part at infinity.     

Nonlinear stability of discontinuous Galerkin methods for delay differential equations

The present paper is devoted to a study of nonlinear stability of discontinuous Galerkin methods for delay differential equations. Some concepts, such as global and analogously asymptotical stability are introduced. We derive that discontinuous Galerkin methods lead to global and analogously asymptotical stability for delay differential equations. And these nonlinear stability properties reveal to the reader the relation between the perturbations of the numerical solution and that of the initial value or the systems.     

Planar polynomial vector fields having first integrals and algebraic limit cycles

With the help of Abel differential equations we obtain a new class of Darboux integrable planar polynomial differential systems, which have degenerate infinity. Moreover such integrable systems may have algebraic limit cycles. Also we present the explicit expressions of these algebraic limit cycles for quintic systems.     

On the singular nonlinear self-adjoint eigenvalue problem for differential algebraic systems of equations

The general nonlinear self-adjoint eigenvalue problem for a differential algebraic system of equations on a half-line is examined. The boundary conditions are chosen so that the solution to this system is bounded at infinity. Under certain assumptions, the original problem can be reduced to a self-adjoint system of differential equations. After certain transformations, this system, combined with the boundary conditions, forms a nonlinear self-adjoint eigenvalue problem. Requirements for the appropriate boundary conditions are clarified. Under the additional assumption that the initial data are monotone functions of the spectral parameter, a method is proposed for calculating the number of eigenvalues of the original problem that lie on a prescribed interval of this parameter.     

Resonances, radiation damping and instabilitym in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations

We consider a class of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations which are Hamiltonian and are perturbations of linear dispersive equations. The unperturbed dynamical system has a bound state, a spatially localized and time periodic solution. We show that, for generic nonlinear Hamiltonian perturbations, all small amplitude solutions decay to zero as time tends to infinity at an anomalously slow rate. In particular, spatially localized and time-periodic solutions of the linear problem are destroyed by generic nonlinear Hamiltonian perturbations via slow radiation of energy to infinity. These solutions can therefore be thought of as metastable states. The main mechanism is a nonlinear resonant interaction of bound states (eigenfunctions) and radiation (continuous spectral modes), leading to energy transfer from the discrete to continuum modes. This is in contrast to the KAM theory in which appropriate nonresonance conditions imply the persistence of invariant tori. A hypothesis ensuring that such a resonance takes place is a nonlinear analogue of the Fermi golden rule, arising in the theory of resonances in quantum mechanics. The techniques used involve: (i) a time-dependent method developed by the authors for the treatment of the quantum resonance problem and perturbations of embedded eigenvalues, (ii) a generalization of the Hamiltonian normal form appropriate for infinite dimensional dispersive systems and (iii) ideas from scattering theory. The arguments are quite general and we expect them to apply to a large class of systems which can be viewed as the interaction of finite dimensional and infinite dimensional dispersive dynamical systems, or as a system of particles coupled to a field. Oblatum: 6-XI-1998 & 12-VI-1998 / Published online: 14 January 1999     

Unbounded branches of periodic solutions

We consider quasilinear ordinary differential equations of higher order that depend on a scalar parameter λ and consist of a stationary leading linear part at infinity and a periodic saturated nonlinearity with period independent of λ. We assume that the linear part becomes resonance at some λ = λ₀. If the leading nonlinear terms (positively homogeneous of zero order) are nondegenerate in a certain sense, then they determine the existence and the number of unbounded branches of periodic solutions for λ close to λ₀. We completely investigate the case of “double degeneration,” in which both the linear and the leading nonlinear terms are degenerate and the terms decaying at infinity play the key role. To take them into account, we develop a new method for the computation of exact asymptotics of the projections of bounded functional nonlinearities onto the two-dimensional resonance subspace.     

Positive solutions of asymptotically linear equations via Pohozaev manifold

We present a new method for finding positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations, which are non-homogeneous and asymptotically linear at infinity, by using projections on a Pohozaev manifold rather than the Nehari manifold associated with the problem.     

Critical points at infinity and blow up of solutions of autonomous polynomial differential systems via compactification

Critical points at infinity for autonomous differential systems are defined and used as an essential tool. Rn is mapped onto the unit ball by various mappings and the boundary points of the ball are used to distinguish between different directions at infinity. These mappings are special cases of compactifications. It is proved that the definition of the critical points at infinity is independent of the choice of the mapping to the unit ball.We study the rate of blow up of solutions in autonomous polynomial differential systems of equations via compactification methods. To this end we represent each solution as a quotient of a vector valued function (which is a solution of an associated autonomous system) by a scalar function (which is a solution of a related scalar equation).     

Derivation of Moment Equations for Solutions of a System of Differential Equations Dependent on a Semi-Markov Process

We present a new method for the derivation of moment equations for solutions of a system of nonlinear differential equations dependent on a finite-valued semi-Markov process. For systems of linear equations, we compare the results obtained with known ones.     

On differential inequalities with point singularities on the boundary

We prove the nonexistence of solutions for some nonlinear ordinary differential equations and inequalities, for quasilinear partial differential equations and inequalities in bounded domains with singular points on the boundary, and for systems of such equations and inequalities. The proofs are based on the method of nonlinear capacity. We also give examples demonstrating that the conditions obtained are sharp in the class of problems under consideration.     

On decay of solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We present general results on exponential decay of finite energy solutions to stationary nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Under certain natural assumptions we show that any such solution is continuous and vanishes at infinity. This allows us to interpret the solution as a finite multiplicity eigenfunction of a certain linear Schrödinger operator and, hence, apply well-known results on the decay of eigenfunctions.

     

Comparison theorems for noncanonical third order nonlinear differential equations

The aim of our paper is to study oscillatory and asymptotic properties of solutions of nonlinear differential equations of the third order with quasiderivatives. We prove comparison theorems on property A between linear and nonlinear equations. Some integral criteria ensuring property A for nonlinear equations are also given. Our assumptions on the nonlinearity of f are restricted to its behavior only in a neighborhood of zero and a neighborhood of infinity.